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NPR StaffFake news played a bigger role in this past presidential election than ever seen before. And sometimes it has had serious repercussions for real people and businesses.That's what happened to a pizzeria in Washington, D.C., recently, when an armed man claiming to be "self-investigating" a fake news story entered the restaurant and fired off several rounds.But once a fake news story is out there, and the harm has been done, what can a person do about it?Derigan Silver, a professor of media, First Amendment and Internet law at the University of Denver, tells NPR's Audie Cornish that victims of fake news stories have legal recourse under defamation law."Fake news sites are clearly a situation where they're engaging in a defamatory statement, a false statement about another that damages that person's reputation," Silver says. "In that situation, that is certainly actionable."Interview HighlightsOn the legal recourse for victims of fake news storiesSo in most of these situations, the personWhat Legal Recourse Do Victims Of Fake News Stories Have?http://kunm.org/post/what-legal-recourse-do-victims-fake-news-stories-have
83230 as http://kunm.orgThu, 08 Dec 2016 00:23:00 +0000What Legal Recourse Do Victims Of Fake News Stories Have?Sandhya DirksSmoke hung in the air for days in Oakland's largely Latino Fruitvale district after a deadly fire broke out late Friday night in an artists' warehouse, leaving 36 people dead.Like so much of the city, it's a neighborhood facing ripples of gentrification created by the tech boom in the Bay Area, which now has some of the highest rents in the country.Carmen Brito lived in the now destroyed warehouse known as the Ghost Ship. She barely got out with her life."You can go three blocks, and you can see rows of tents of people who are homeless, and nobody wants to talk about that. Nobody wants to talk about the people who've been forced further and further out," Brito says. "San Francisco can't house artists anymore, because it's so expensive. And they're asking us, why did you live this way? What other choice did we have?"But the story of artists' warehouses in Oakland is more complicated, according to Adam Hatch. He's run off-the-grid spaces like the Ghost Ship for years."The housing crisisDeadly Fire In Oakland May Spark Crackdown On Off-The-Grid Artists' Spaceshttp://kunm.org/post/deadly-fire-oakland-may-spark-crackdown-grid-artists-spaces
83228 as http://kunm.orgWed, 07 Dec 2016 23:56:00 +0000Deadly Fire In Oakland May Spark Crackdown On Off-The-Grid Artists' SpacesCory TurnerCopyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit CORNISH, HOST: Before the election, candidate Trump called school choice the new civil rights issue of our time, and his signature education proposal is a $20 billion school voucher plan. Again, traditional vouchers let parents use public money to pay for private schools, including religious schools. Now, for more on this, I'm joined by another member of the NPR Ed team, Cory Turner. Welcome to the studio. CORY TURNER, BYLINE: Thanks, Audie. CORNISH: So Cory, we just heard a lot from Eric about charter schools in Michigan but less about vouchers in part because Michigan doesn't allow for them. But vouchers are central to Trump's plan. So who has them, and how do they work? TURNER: Yeah, so they're in about 14 states plus Washington, D.C. - traditional voucher programs. Wisconsin really pioneered the idea in 1990, starting in Milwaukee. We've seen them in lots of other states - Florida, Ohio, Indiana. I think the most important thing to keep inSchool Choice 101: What It Is, How It Works And Does It Work? http://kunm.org/post/school-choice-101-what-it-how-it-works-and-does-it-work
83220 as http://kunm.orgWed, 07 Dec 2016 22:15:00 +0000School Choice 101: What It Is, How It Works And Does It Work? Scott DetrowCopyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit SHAPIRO, HOST: The Senate gathered this afternoon to say goodbye to Vice President Joe Biden. Biden has been a presence there for more than 40 years. And NPR's Scott Detrow says it was a rare bipartisan moment in an increasingly partisan Capitol. SCOTT DETROW, BYLINE: By now, Joe Biden's Senate story is pretty well-known. He was elected in 1972. He need to be 30 to serve in the Senate, as minority leader Harry Reid pointed out in today's tribute. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) HARRY REID: Joe was 29 on Election Day. He turned 30 two weeks after the election. DETROW: Biden was getting ready to become one of the youngest senators in U.S. history when tragedy struck. His wife and daughter were killed in a car crash. His two sons nearly died, too. Biden was blindsided. He told Yale students last year that he almost resigned before taking office to care for his two injured sons. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: I wasSenators Deliver Farewell Tribute To Vice President Joe Bidenhttp://kunm.org/post/senators-deliver-farewell-tribute-vice-president-joe-biden
83226 as http://kunm.orgWed, 07 Dec 2016 21:32:00 +0000Senators Deliver Farewell Tribute To Vice President Joe BidenFrank LangfittCopyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit CORNISH, HOST: This year, millions of people from northern England to American Midwest voted against globalization, but as the English city of Sunderland recently experienced, voting against free trade comes with risks. After Sunderland went for Brexit last summer, the city's biggest private employer, Nissan, threatened to stop investing there. NPR's Frank Langfitt has the story. FRANK LANGFITT, BYLINE: This was the scene in June when Sunderland's vote tally on Brexit was announced. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: The total number of votes cast in favor of leave was 82,000. (CHEERING) LANGFITT: More than 60 percent of voters in Sunderland backed leaving the European Union, but as they celebrated, Brian Manning worried. Manning's vice president of the North East England Chamber of Commerce. BRIAN MANNING: I watch people cheering, and I thought meself (ph), careful what you wish for. LANGFITT: Sunderland is part of England'sBrexit Vote Comes With Risks For English City Home To Nissan Planthttp://kunm.org/post/brexit-vote-comes-risks-english-city-home-nissan-plant
83225 as http://kunm.orgWed, 07 Dec 2016 21:32:00 +0000Brexit Vote Comes With Risks For English City Home To Nissan PlantDavid FolkenflikAlex Jones has a following. His radio show is carried on more than 160 stations, and he has more than 1.8 million subscribers on YouTube.And he claims to have the ear of the next president of the United States.Jones is also one of the nation's leading promoters of conspiracy theories — some of which take on lives of their own. He has been a chief propagator of untrue and wild claims about a satanic sex trafficking ring run by one of Hillary Clinton's top advisers out of a pizzeria in Washington, D.C.Days before a self-described "investigator" entered the pizzeria and fired off several rounds, Jones suggested he might investigate in person."I may just have to take off a week and just only research this and actually go to where these places are and stuff," Jones said. "Fact, I'm looking at getting on a plane. ... I can't just say something and not see it for myself. They go to these pizza places. There's like satanic art everywhere."The Daily Beast reported the shooter was a fan onRadio Conspiracy Theorist Claims Ear Of Trump, Pushes 'Pizzagate' Fictionshttp://kunm.org/post/radio-conspiracy-theorist-claims-ear-trump-pushes-pizzagate-fictions
83183 as http://kunm.orgWed, 07 Dec 2016 01:10:00 +0000Radio Conspiracy Theorist Claims Ear Of Trump, Pushes 'Pizzagate' FictionsNPR StaffWe like to think our brains can make rational decisions — but maybe they can't.The way risks are presented can change the way we respond, says best-selling author Michael Lewis. In his new book, The Undoing Project, Lewis tells the story of Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, two Israeli psychologists who made some surprising discoveries about the way people make decisions. Along the way, they also founded an entire branch of psychology called behavioral economics.Lewis is also the author of Moneyball, which is about trusting statistics over intuition to build a successful baseball team. He tells NPR's Audie Cornish what Kahneman and Tversky were looking for, and how the Obama administration has put their findings to use.Interview HighlightsOn how framing something as a loss or a gain can affect the way people make decisionsIf you have a patient in a doctor's office who's just been told they have terminal cancer but there's this operation they could perform right now that might saveAre You Of Two Minds? Michael Lewis' New Book Explores How We Make Decisionshttp://kunm.org/post/are-you-two-minds-michael-lewis-new-book-explores-how-we-make-decisions
83184 as http://kunm.orgTue, 06 Dec 2016 22:55:00 +0000Are You Of Two Minds? Michael Lewis' New Book Explores How We Make DecisionsJim ZarroliHe was a flamboyant, alpha-male billionaire who said things no career politician ever would — someone who promised to use his business savvy to reform the system and bring back jobs. Voters believed that his great wealth insulated him from corruption, because he couldn't be bought.But his administration was marked by criminal investigations and crony capitalism.Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was — until Donald Trump came along — the best known example of a certain type of wealthy businessman who decides to go into politics, promising that, as an outsider, he is uniquely qualified to shake up the system, says Darrell West, vice president of governance studies at the Brookings Institution."Most of the time, they win, and for exactly the same reason that Trump did, which is [that] people like business people. They think they know how to create jobs and run the economy. It's a kind of white-knight phenomenon," West says.In the former Soviet republic of Georgia, Bidzina "Boris"When It Comes To Wealthy Leaders, World Abounds With Cautionary Taleshttp://kunm.org/post/when-it-comes-wealthy-leaders-world-abounds-cautionary-tales
83178 as http://kunm.orgTue, 06 Dec 2016 22:21:00 +0000When It Comes To Wealthy Leaders, World Abounds With Cautionary TaleseditorSince her son Tommy went to jail, Dawn Herbert has been trying to see him as much as she can. He's incarcerated less than a 10-minute drive from her house in Keene, N.H. But he might as well be a lot farther."He's in that building and I can't get to him," Herbert says.Dawn's visits probably don't look like what one might picture, where she's sitting across a table, or behind a pane of Plexiglas looking at and talking to her son.No. When Herbert visits her son, she has to sit in a windowless booth just past the jail's front door, hold a phone to her ear, and wait for him to show up on a little screen."It's nice that [it says] you have an appointment, you are connected, which is 'OK, great,' " she says.On some days Herbert can hear Tommy, but most times she says she can't. The sound cuts out or the screen freezes up. And each time, Tommy is a few hundred feet away in his cellblock, sitting at another little screen."I can't stand it, because he's on the screen in front of me, and I can'tVideo Calls Replace In-Person Visits In Some Jailshttp://kunm.org/post/video-calls-replace-person-visits-some-jails
83149 as http://kunm.orgMon, 05 Dec 2016 23:59:00 +0000Video Calls Replace In-Person Visits In Some JailseditorCopyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit SHAPIRO, HOST: A pipe organ thought to have been ruined in the September 11 terrorist attacks is now making music again. The organ was in Trinity Church, just a few blocks from Ground Zero in New York. When the towers fell, the organ was covered by dust and debris. After years in storage it has been restored. And it has a new home, a church outside Atlanta. Bradley George of Georgia Public Broadcasting reports. BRADLEY GEORGE, BYLINE: Yesterday was the second Sunday of Advent, and a grand occasion in the life of Johns Creek United Methodist Church. (SOUNDBITE OF ORGAN) GEORGE: A packed house came to the dedication service for the church's new organ. (SOUNDBITE OF ORGAN) UNIDENTIFIED CHOIR: (Singing) Gloria. GEORGE: Ken Axelson, Johns Creek's organist, has been waiting for this moment for a long time. KEN AXELSON: I first sat down to play it in the factory when it wasn't completely ready. And at that point the organ was in two different rooms. AndAfter 15 Years Of Silence, New York City's Trinity Church Organ Returnshttp://kunm.org/post/after-15-years-silence-new-york-citys-trinity-church-organ-returns
83150 as http://kunm.orgMon, 05 Dec 2016 23:29:00 +0000After 15 Years Of Silence, New York City's Trinity Church Organ ReturnsNPR StaffMore and more of the things we use every day are being connected to the Internet.The term for these Internet-enabled devices — like connected cars and home appliances — is the Internet of things. They promise to make life more convenient, but these devices are also vulnerable to hacking.Security technologist Bruce Schneier told NPR's Audie Cornish that while hacking someone's emails or banking information can be embarrassing or costly, hacking the Internet of things could be dangerous."Unlike computers that only affect bits, the Internet of things affects objects," Schneier says. "My Internet thermostat turns my heat on and off, Internet-enabled car drives around, and these devices are vulnerable to hacking. And the fear is that they can be used, you know, to kill people."Schneier says there is currently no government regulation around the Internet of things, and he fears it will take a disaster for that to change. There also isn't an organized effort by manufacturers to make theseDespite Its Promise, The Internet Of Things Remains Vulnerablehttp://kunm.org/post/despite-its-promise-internet-things-remains-vulnerable
83148 as http://kunm.orgMon, 05 Dec 2016 22:52:00 +0000Despite Its Promise, The Internet Of Things Remains VulnerableeditorCopyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit MARTIN, HOST: A major development today regarding that controversial pipeline project in North Dakota. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced today that it was denying the federal easement for the pipeline to cross the Missouri River. The Corps of Engineers will study alternate routes. The Standing Rock Sioux tribe had been joined by thousands of other activists in a network of camps on the prairie near Cannonball, N.D. Protesters claim the crude oil pipeline could compromise the tribe's water supply, infringe on sacred lands and was being built without proper consultation. The Standing Rock Sioux tribe has been at the center of this and its chairman, Dave Archambault II, is with us now by phone. Mr. Chairman, thank you so much for speaking with us. DAVE ARCHAMBAULT II: Yes. Thank you. MARTIN: What is your understanding of the roots of this decision? Is the decision that in fact proper consultation did not occur? Is the decision that yourStanding Rock Sioux Chairman Dave Archambault II On Army Corps Decisionhttp://kunm.org/post/standing-rock-sioux-chairman-dave-archambault-ii-army-corps-decision
83114 as http://kunm.orgMon, 05 Dec 2016 00:34:00 +0000Standing Rock Sioux Chairman Dave Archambault II On Army Corps DecisioneditorCopyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit MARTIN, HOST: Let's talk football for a few minutes. If you are like millions of other Americans, then football is a part of your weekend. Whether you're catching a game or jumping on the computer to check on your fantasy team, you are the reason football remains the most watched sport in the country and the most profitable sports enterprise in the world. So you might not have noticed that the sport is actually facing some stress. There's more attention to the health effects than ever before. The number of kids participating is dropping, and this season ratings have actually dropped. But the NFL is not taking this lying down. The league is fighting back with a massive effort to replenish its fan base by focusing on drawing kids into the game and reassuring their parents it is safe. But according to our next guest, they're doing that by sometimes using questionable tactics, including fuzzy facts. Our guest is Pulitzer Prize-winning sportswriterNFL Targets Kids In Outreach Campaignhttp://kunm.org/post/nfl-targets-kids-outreach-campaign
83107 as http://kunm.orgSun, 04 Dec 2016 22:18:00 +0000NFL Targets Kids In Outreach CampaigneditorCopyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit MARTIN, HOST: Now to Cuba where the remains of the late President Fidel Castro were interred earlier today and more than a week of national mourning. Nick Schifrin, a special correspondent for PBS NewsHour has been following the memorial events and joins us now from Castro's hometown, Santiago de Cuba. Nick, thanks so much for speaking with us. NICK SCHIFRIN: Thanks, Michel. MARTIN: So tell us what you know about the burial ceremony today which was private, correct? SCHIFRIN: Yeah. It was very private. You know, for the last nine days, we've seen a 500-mile journey that Castro's ashes took here from Havana. We've seen people lining the streets. We've seen events. This was a very quiet, very quick ceremony. Castro's remains traveled here in a box, and his younger brother and successor Raul Castro placed that box inside a tomb. And the tomb looks like a boulder, basically. There's a small cutout in the middle of it. Raul placed that box into theFidel Castro Laid To Rest In Private Ceremonyhttp://kunm.org/post/fidel-castro-laid-rest-private-ceremony
83108 as http://kunm.orgSun, 04 Dec 2016 22:18:00 +0000Fidel Castro Laid To Rest In Private CeremonyeditorCopyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit MARTIN, HOST: If you're of a certain age or if you love surrealist art, then you probably remember Salvador Dali. He was widely known for his celebrity persona, his pointy mustache and his canvases filled with melting clocks and other worldly deserts. But did you know that Dali also dabbled in other worldly desserts? Turns out that the artist published a cookbook in the early 1970s. It was called "Les Diners De Gala" or "The Dinners Of Gala," named for his wife. It was an opulent gold-leafed collection of exotic French recipes. Now after more than 40 years as a rare collector's item, it is being republished, as NPR's Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi reports. ALEXI HOROWITZ-GHAZI, BYLINE: Unlike most cookbooks, this one begins with a warning... UNIDENTIFIED MAN: "Les Diners De Gala" is uniquely devoted to the pleasures of taste. If you're a disciple of one of those calorie counters who turn the joys of eating into a form of punishment, close this book at once.The Surreal Cookbook Of Salvador Dalíhttp://kunm.org/post/surreal-cookbook-salvador-dal
83113 as http://kunm.orgSun, 04 Dec 2016 22:18:00 +0000The Surreal Cookbook Of Salvador DalíAri ShapiroCopyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit SHAPIRO, HOST: Today, President-elect Donald Trump spoke by phone to Tsai Ing-wen, the president of Taiwan. That breaks nearly four decades of diplomatic protocol and threatens to upset U.S. relations with China. NPR's Rob Schmitz joins us to talk about this. Hi, Rob. ROB SCHMITZ, BYLINE: Hi, Ari. SHAPIRO: Donald Trump has had so many telephone conversations with world leaders. Explain why this one with the leader of Taiwan is so much more fraught. SCHMITZ: Well, this is really unprecedented. China has long considered Taiwan a renegade province, and no U.S. president is believed to have spoken to a Taiwanese leader since 1979. That was when the United States formally severed diplomatic ties to the island after recognizing the People's Republic of China. This is what's known as the one-China policy. So for a president-elect to speak directly to the president of Taiwan is unprecedented. And this will, you know, threaten to harm China-U.S. relations.Trump Talks With Taiwan, In A Move That May Spell Friction With Chinahttp://kunm.org/post/trump-talks-taiwan-move-may-spell-friction-china
83080 as http://kunm.orgSat, 03 Dec 2016 22:41:00 +0000Trump Talks With Taiwan, In A Move That May Spell Friction With ChinaMichel MartinCopyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit MARTIN, HOST: Now we'd like to take a minute to consider how Castro influenced the country in one particular way - its music. To do that, we're joined by NPR contributor Betto Arcos. Betto, thanks so much for joining us. BETTO ARCOS, BYLINE: My pleasure to be with you, Michel. MARTIN: So let's get to the late '60s and early '70s after Castro had been in power not for very long. What did the music sound like then? What was going on? ARCOS: Well, in the late 1960s and early '70s as the Cuban government, you know, consolidated its social and political structures, there was what I call the sort of establishment of a new revolutionary identity, especially through music. This is the period that saw the emergence of a new musical style called Nueva Trova Cubana. These new troubadours were directly associated with the revolution's philosophy, writing protest songs, you could call them, but were also introspective and self-critical of themselves and of theThe Birth Of 'Nueva Trova Cubana' And Other Music Styles In Castro's Cubahttp://kunm.org/post/birth-nueva-trova-cubana-and-other-music-styles-castros-cuba
83081 as http://kunm.orgSat, 03 Dec 2016 22:05:00 +0000The Birth Of 'Nueva Trova Cubana' And Other Music Styles In Castro's CubaeditorCopyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit MARTIN, HOST: Now we want to spend a few minutes talking about Cuba's longtime leader, Fidel Castro. He died a little over a week ago at the age of 90. Earlier today, his ashes arrived in Santiago after a four-day journey across Cuba. A private funeral will be held tomorrow morning. Many of those remembering him this week have focused on his intolerance for dissent, his crackdowns on dissidents, the media and LGBT people. But others remember him as a champion for racial equality both in Cuba and abroad. We wanted to hear more about this, so we called Mark Sawyer. He's a professor of political science and African-American studies at UCLA and the author of "Racial Politics In Post-Revolutionary Cuba." Professor Sawyer, thanks so much for joining us. MARK SAWYER: Thank you for having me. MARTIN: And frankly, one of the reasons we wanted to speak with you is that we were tracking social media upon Castro's death and saw a lot of differing opinionsFidel Castro's Legacy On Race Relations In Cuba And Abroadhttp://kunm.org/post/fidel-castros-legacy-race-relations-cuba-and-abroad
83082 as http://kunm.orgSat, 03 Dec 2016 22:05:00 +0000Fidel Castro's Legacy On Race Relations In Cuba And AbroadeditorCopyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit CORNISH, HOST: World leaders are now trying to figure out what a Donald Trump presidency will mean for their countries. Take the Philippines - today, Trump and the president of the Phillippines, Rodrigo Duterte, had a friendly phone call. They invited each other to come visit. The Philippines has been an ally of the U.S. for a long time. It used to be a U.S. colony, but recently things have been tense. Duterte's is carrying out a violent war on drugs. The Obama administration has been critical. Michael Sullivan has more from Manila. MICHAEL SULLIVAN, BYLINE: Many here view President-elect Trump with suspicion. His campaign promises about curbing immigration and bringing jobs back to the U.S. could hurt in a country where remittance money helps drive the economy. But Trump's victory was welcomed effusively by President Duterte, who has been fiercely foully critical of President Obama and the U.S. DINDO MANHIT: That surprises a lot of Filipinos whatWhy U.S.-Philippine Relations Could Improve Under Trump Presidencyhttp://kunm.org/post/why-us-philippine-relations-could-improve-under-trump-presidency
83058 as http://kunm.orgFri, 02 Dec 2016 23:39:00 +0000Why U.S.-Philippine Relations Could Improve Under Trump PresidencyTed RobbinsCopyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit CORNISH, HOST: Let's pause now to remember a British actor best known for playing a Spanish waiter in a 1970s BBC series that lasted only 12 episodes - Andrew Sachs. He died at age 86. As NPR's Ted Robbins tells us, his relatively small role left a big impression. TED ROBBINS, BYLINE: For decades, if you turned on PBS, you were bound to come across a rerun of the 1970s British comedy "Fawlty Towers." (SOUNDBITE OF DENNIS WILSON SONG, “FAWLTY TOWERS THEME MUSIC”) ROBBINS: John Cleese created and started it, as hotel owner Basil Fawlty. Basil frequently had some kind of misunderstanding with his earnest, bumbling Spanish waiter Manuel. (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "FAWLTY TOWERS") JOHN CLEESE: (As Basil) There is too much butter on those trays. ANDREW SACHS: (As Manuel) No. No, no, Senior, not on those trays - no, sir - uno, dos, tres. (LAUGHTER) ROBBINS: As the son of refugees from Nazi Germany, Andrew Sachs wanted to play Manuel with a German accent.'Fawlty Towers' Actor Andrew Sachs Dies At 86http://kunm.org/post/fawlty-towers-actor-andrew-sachs-dies-86
83057 as http://kunm.orgFri, 02 Dec 2016 23:39:00 +0000'Fawlty Towers' Actor Andrew Sachs Dies At 86